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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Jess take from Ben?

2. What is the name of the cat Jess remembers a foster-family having had?

3. What had Sophie purchased at the bakery Jess visited on her first day in Paris?

4. What is the name of the old toy Mimi uses to comfort herself?

5. As which of the following does Jess label Benjamin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice from her mother does Jess note was useful for her, although not for her mother?

2. Nick notes that "Normally [during exercise], I'd sit here and do a class, or listen to a Ted Talk" (40)? Why does he not do so?

3. Why does Nick note liking to have few decorations out?

4. How does the concierge describe her lodgings?

5. During their first meeting, Jess and Mendelson both order a particular drink. What is it and what is notable about it?

6. What does Jess see in the first-floor apartment from the vantage of the hidden staircase?

7. What history of the building does Nick rehearse to Jess?

8. What books does Nick have on his shelves?

9. What relationship do Jess and Ben have?

10. What does Mimi note is Camille's usual clubbing practice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much is made of the Parisian setting of the bulk of the novel. How might the novel have been different if set in another major world city, such as New York City, London, Los Angeles, Shanghai, or Rome? Why would it have been different in those ways?

Essay Topic 2

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

References to particular software platforms and businesses in the novel set it in a specific point in time. How might the novel have been different if set in another major cultural moment, such as the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s? Why would it have been different in those ways?

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